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The Sidewalks of Saturn

1986 · 145 min

A shadowy, drifting fable that blurs two cities together, asking patience as it moves between exile, memory and tango.

Directed by
Hugo Santiago
Genres
Drama, Music
Starring
Rodolfo Mederos, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Edgardo Lusi
Overview
Hugo Santiago and writers Juan José Saer and Jorge Semprún move back and forth between Paris and the city of Aquilea in a shadowy fable about exile. The frontier between one city and the other begins to blur after Bandoneonist Rodolfo Mederos is visited by his sister, a member of a guerrilla organization.

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Directed by
Hugo Santiago
Genres
Drama, Music
Starring
Rodolfo Mederos, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Edgardo Lusi
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • identity
  • memory
  • family
  • politics
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism6
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, music
Directed by
Hugo Santiago
Written by
Juan José Saer, Jorge Semprún, Hugo Santiago
Starring
Rodolfo Mederos, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Edgardo Lusi, Andrea Livier Aronovich, Philippe Clévenot, Emmanuel Dechartre, Catherine Jarret, Sophie Lucachevski
Cinematography
Ricardo Aronovich
Runtime
145 min
Country
Argentina, France
Languages
Spanish, French

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